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Supply Chain Woes with Inflation Rising … What’s Next?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic! Inflation rising article and permission to publish here provided by Olivia Alex. Companies rely on supply chain management to reduce costs and increase their production cycle. Sadly, with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, many global organizations had to rethink their supply chain strategy , especially those who depended solely on China for their requirements of

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Why Route Optimization is Important During the Driver Shortage

Logistics Viewpoints

Pick your country, but you will find the same story: there are not enough drivers to meet transportation demand and the situation is not likely to change for years. Ecommerce experienced significant growth globally during the pandemic and is not slowing down as countries continue to open up. Other country-specific factors, such as Brexit which caused approximately 60,000* European drivers to leave the UK and an aging workforce and competition from other professions in the US, have put pressure o

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What Level of Automated eCommerce Fulfillment Makes Sense?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

An ongoing logistics labor shortage and a year of pandemic-related supply chain disruptions have left many retail and eCommerce businesses wishing for more automated eCommerce fulfillment. Extensive automation of fulfillment operations requires a significant upfront investment, making the concept intimidating for many growing online sellers. The truth is most fulfillment centers don’t need extensive automation to run a highly efficient operation.

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Using Design Thinking to drive SC Innovation

Prophetic Technology

We should see the Supply Chain Management (SCM) as a team. Its success depends on a working party pulling together towards a common goal and operating through a collaborative alignment.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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How to Show Your MOM Year Round Appreciation

QAD

Have You Connected with Your MOM Lately? When we say MOM, of course we’re talking about your Manufacturing Operations Management system. It’s the system of processes you use to bridge your ERP and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with your equipment and shop floor automation. Whatever manufacturers need to manage actual manufacturing operations to get the product built and out the door – that’s MOM.

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How Automation Can Reduce Waste in the Food Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

America’s massive food waste problem touches nearly every facet of society, from the farms that produce our food to what we put on our plates.

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Ethereum and Blockchain Applications in Healthcare!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Ethereum is Gaining in Popularity! Blockchain applications article and permission to publish here provided by Jean Nichols. One can see the developed nations coming up with a good amount of effort to spend on healthcare. We even see these nations coming up with the latest technologies to implement digital currencies like Ethereum , which is now the second most popular Cryptocurrency in the world.

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FourKites Introduces ETA Solution for Air Freight

Supply Chain Brain

FourKites, a real-time supply chain visibility platform, recently introduced Dynamic ETA for Air, an AI-powered air freight solution. With Dynamic ETA, shippers, carriers and 3PLs can track 100% of air freight with highly accurate and automated estimated arrival times.

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How Commercial Vehicle Inspections Help Your Business!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What are Commercial Vehicle Inspections? Commercial vehicle inspections help your business article and permission to publish here provided by Saaed Darwish. Commercial vehicle inspections are a critical part of any business that uses vehicles in the course of its operations. From vehicle-based jobs like locksmiths and cable technicians to the transportation industry with its fifth wheels and trailers, commercial vehicles make

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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Food industry changes demand strategic thinking

IT Supply Chain

By Leigh Anderson (pictured). Managing Director, Bis Henderson Recruitment. The post Food industry changes demand strategic thinking appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Unlock PDF Passwords in Seconds!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Cyber Security and the Digital Supply Chain! PDF passwords article and permission to publish here provided by Joe Johnston. Protecting PDFs with a strong password has become a popular method of data security these days. A bank statement or phone bill, for example, may contain sensitive information.

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Watch: Reassessing Boilerplate Clauses in a Post-COVID World

Supply Chain Brain

Parties to a supply chain contract need to take a fresh look at “boilerplate” clauses, which can result in unintended legal consequences if not given proper attention.

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Demand Driven Technologies Joins LAGO Innovation Fund

Demand Driven Technologies

Demand Driven Technologies is excited to join the LAGO Innovation Fund and its family of innovators. LAGO invests in companies that are disrupting the status quo in their native industries or creating de novo markets through innovative products, services, and technologies. It’s a perfect fit for Demand Driven Technologies, whose groundbreaking supply chain solutions help.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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How to Approach Multi-Tier Supplier Assessments

SupplyShift

Organizations big and small rely heavily on hundreds—if not thousands—of different suppliers around the globe. In this type of supply chain ecosystem, companies must understand sustainability performance of not only their tier-one suppliers, but also their second, third, and fourth tier suppliers and beyond. Yet according to Deloitte , a recent study revealed that while most companies have social and environmental systems in place for internal operations, less than a third have similar structure

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How iTradeNetwork is Advancing Supply Chain Resilience

ITradeNetwork

iTradeNetwork CEO, Rhonda Bassett-Spiers is currently featured on the podcast, The Modern Acre, which highlights innovators in the food industry. The discussion focused on the impact of iTrade’s innovations over the past 20 years and how Bassett-Spiers has helped advance the company’s mission to modernize the industry, with faster, smarter technology, to achieve the supply chain resilience needed for suppliers and buyers to grow.

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How to Approach Multi-Tier Supplier Assessments

SupplyShift

Organizations big and small rely heavily on hundreds—if not thousands—of different suppliers around the globe. In this type of supply chain ecosystem, companies must understand sustainability performance of not only their tier-one suppliers, but also their second, third, and fourth tier suppliers and beyond. Yet according to Deloitte , a recent study revealed that while most companies have social and environmental systems in place for internal operations, less than a third have similar structure

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Gaining data visibility and control is critical to rebalancing the chemicals supply chain and operations

Maine Pointe

After the double shock of Coronavirus and the ‘Texas Freeze’ visibility and control of the chemicals supply chain and operations is critical to recovery. Glenn Hoskin, EVP Energy & Natural Resources at Maine Pointe, looks at the impact of these events on the industry and considers some of the steps executives can take to ensure they have accurate data at their fingertips to inform decision-making.

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More Than 40 New Manufacturers Join Configura’s Platform in 2023

More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.

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Supply Chain Optimization | How Procurement & Shipping Managers Are Collaborating With TMS to Optimize Freight Flows

MercuryGate

The key to supply chain optimization lies in the ability to integrate the appropriate software platforms. Procurement and shipping managers are collaborating with TMS and other platforms to increase productivity and profitability. The pandemic has brought forth many areas of improvement that managers may have overlooked. And digitalization of all processes is finally reaching maturity […].

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Cybersecurity and Freight Shipping: Keeping Your Supply Chain Secure

Freight Center

It seems like we are hearing almost daily in the news about more and more mass scale cyberattacks and hacks. So far this year alone, we’ve seen disruptions in major industries such as the meat supply chain, and oil supply chains, which has had a big impact on the overall economy and the supply and demand framework. Keeping your supply chain secure when it comes to cybersecurity and freight shipping is becoming a top priority for logistics managers everywhere as our industry moves more into the d

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Ranking Journals: Academic Journal Guide 2021 (“ABS List”)

SCM Research

The influential Chartered Association of Business Scholars has just published its Academic Journal Guide 2021. What does this mean for the operations and supply chain management (OSCM) research community? I have looked at the ranks for 15 major OSCM journals. Once again, only the following OSCM journals were classified in category 4*: Journal of Operations Management , Management Science and Operations Research.

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Logility Receives Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2021 Top Supply Chain Project Award

Logility

Berlin Packaging drove increased supply assurance for their customers through Logility partnership. ATLANTA – June 24, 2021 – Logility, Inc., a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, received Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2021 Top Supply Chain Projects award (formerly known as the SDCE 100). “It is always great to receive industry recognition for the work we do each day for our customers,” said Allan Dow, president, Logility.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Overcoming LTL Capacity with a Fully Connected TMS

3GTMS

By Alex King, Commercial Operations at 3G There’s a hurdle in the road to recovery that the shipper community is still trying to overcome. Analysts forecast the economy to grow dramatically in 2021’s second and third quarters. Consumerism is rising, domestic manufacturers have ramped up output, and ports on both coasts can’t keep up with […]. The post Overcoming LTL Capacity with a Fully Connected TMS appeared first on 3GTMS.

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Towards a Smart City Future

Enterra Insights

Although many parts of the world continue to struggle with the Covid-19 pandemic, we can now see a light glimmering at the end of the tunnel. As the world adapts to a new normal, many people are beginning to contemplate the future of urban areas. During the pandemic, some so-called “smart city” projects were canceled as residents complained about technologies intruding on their lives.

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Overcoming LTL Capacity with a Fully Connected TMS

3GTMS

By Alex King, Commercial Operations at 3G There’s a hurdle in the road to recovery that the shipper community is still trying to overcome. Analysts forecast the economy to grow dramatically in 2021’s second and third quarters. Consumerism is rising, domestic manufacturers have ramped up output, and ports on both coasts can’t keep up with […]. The post Overcoming LTL Capacity with a Fully Connected TMS appeared first on 3GTMS.

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Supply Chain Graphic of the Week on Factory Wage Gap over Retail and Restaurants is Shrinking

Supply Chain Digest

10 Years Ago, the Factory Job Wage Premium is Dropping Rapidly

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What is Mesh Networking Trends Report

This report details the capabilities of mesh networks, how they work, and the applications they thrive in supporting. Connectivity is necessary for optimal productivity, and mesh networking will soon be a significant provider of connectivity globally.

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Procurement must shift gears to meet C-Level’s rising expectations

ivalua

The post Procurement must shift gears to meet C-Level’s rising expectations appeared first on Ivalua.

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Measuring the Costs of Poor Quality Packaging

CHAINalytics

Skimping on packaging materials and design leads to one primary consequence – waste. Sacrificing delivered quality in the name of cost savings alone can negatively impact your bottom line and environmental goals. Some initiatives that take a blanket approach to reduce packaging costs and improve margins often lack a holistic view of the potential downstream … The post Measuring the Costs of Poor Quality Packaging appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Suez Canal, Ever Given Ship Owners Reach Compensation Deal

Supply Chain Brain

Egyptian officials and owners of the giant Ever Given vessel that blocked the Suez Canal earlier this year have reached a preliminary deal over compensation, according to the ship’s representatives.